Josephine Gordon Rich

Josephine Gordon Rich (1866–1940) was a New Zealand zoologist. In 1891, Rich achieved the highest grade in all her first year classes in zoology, botany, general biology, and practical biology from the University of Otago.

Rich was one of only four New Zealand women who published results of her scientific work before 1901. Her work on spiny lobsters (Palinurus edwardsii) was co-authored by her teacher Thomas Jeffery Parker in 1893.

On 28 August 1894, Josephine married the Australian William Aitcheson Haswell (1854–1925), a friend Thomas Jeffrey Parker, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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